It will always be cheaper to exploit independent contractors, since “gig economy” jobs don’t require a lot of training and have the contractor foot the bill for everything. (Who pays for gas and car repairs? It ain’t Lyft) There’s a hundred people in line behind you who need to make rent, replacing people is only…

He can parlay his limelight notoriety into a tv documentary. Making of a Ghost Murderer.

I get the feeling this guy was attracted to the “wearing white sheets” aspect of ghosts.

Who will advocate for Post-Death Americans now? Presumably they’re the ones paying all those death taxes.

The priest loophole is that the Church gets to decide what their penance is, not the law.

I’ve always had a soft spot in my heart for Janice.

You mean retrofit entire fleets of planes so you can cordon off a set number of infants who will be potentially noisy during a flight? That’s not going to be be cheaper. Who does that fee gets passed on to? And I’m not going to relegate parents and infants to some leper cube.

I have some nice over-ear headphones that cancel out basically all sound. If you fly often, it’s the best investment you can make.

She sounds like a trooper! Kids should be exposed to a wide variety of situations. It’s how they learn. It’s how everyone learns. And it’ll make them better people in the long run than isolating them away from society like tiny lepers.

My mother still grumbles sometimes about the fact that people dress like slobs now to fly, but will concede without hesitation that it’s better to fly 10 times a year with slobs than twice a decade with fur coats and hats.

Bring kids on planes young! It teaches them how to behave and deal with it. Best plane toddlers are the ones who were plane babies. Same for subways.

Add a new bit at the end of the safety announcement. “Earplugs are available upon request.” Boom. PR problem pre-solved. I fly all the time and it sucks to be within a 16ft radius of a screaming baby, trapped in a metal tube. But babies sometimes scream, sometimes you can’t do a damn thing about it.

I still go nuts at Halloween buying all the raven print tablecloths, but everything is in black and gray. My dining room is a gray/turquoise/sage scheme so I can make it work. But that elusive eggplant....

Al is a creep. I don’t know how much of a creep he is now, but his past actions are those of a creep.

I loved the sun/moon theme. I picked up some good stuff when it all went on clearance, so now I’ve got a couple really nice planters for my porch. I’m waiting for the white/gold “everything is deer and rocks” to pass by now. Oh boy is that ever going to look hilarious when antlers are no longer in vogue.

Damnit, Al. I’m so pissed about this. ALL OF THIS. He has been a good senator, his staff have been good, his office has been approachable and helpful. He had a policy where if you were a Minnesotan in DC, he held an open breakfast once a week with his staff his constituents could attend and talk about their issues. I…

Make the jump. I hated most lipsticks on me and then I went purple and found out, oh, everything else was the wrong color. Now it’s my default, even for business functions.

There was a brief moment where the 60s were A THING again, and I found lots of jewel tones but NONE of the purple. All greens, reds, orange, blues if you were lucky. The decorating rage was strong.

Sage green and deep purple look soooo good together. I’ve got lead glass bottles in those color, and some bronze backings for my nightstands.

My bedroom was painted “stormy night” and all my accessories are in varying shades of gray and eggplant. I had good luck for about 6 months and then stopped finding anything darker than lavender. So all my winter sheets are a beautiful deep purple, and my summer sheets are slate gray.